We support unemployed 16-24-year-olds to move into employment using the power of sport. As a youth sports charity, we use football and other sports to engage with young people, as well as teach them the key life and work skills they need to move into sustainable employment. Our award-winning programmes operate in 14 cities and 38 local communities in England and Scotland.

Success stories

Darren, 19, from Glasgow, joined Street League's Football Academy wanting some direction and advice regarding his job prospects after finding it hard to get into work. A keen football fan, Darren wanted to work within the game. Read more

Chelsea, 24, from Manchester, joined Street League keen to find employment and improve her social skills. After completing the football programme, Chelsea gained an eight week work placement where she impressed enough to be offered the job on a full-time basis. Read more

Leonardo, 19, from Manchester, arrived in the UK in 2013 from Iran. Struggling with the language, Leonardo couldn't get a job and was in need of some support. After hearing about Street League, it appealed to him immensely as he could play football, meet people and hopefully move into work at the end of the Academy programme. Read more

News and Views

In 2016, we began reporting the number of young people we didn’t help, encouraging the charity sector to commit to transparently reporting social impact. In our third year of celebrating our #CallForClarity campaign, we have produced our very first all-digital annual report, in an attempt to be even more informative, clearer and transparent. Read more

Upshot, a digital impact measurement organisation, and the Sports Think Tank, an independent think tank dedicated to UK sporting policy, have joined forces to curate ‘The F Word’, an event which seeks to explore how third sector organisations can work together to learn from their Failures and develop best practice strategies for dealing with them. Read more

Street League has, since the launch of our #CallForClarity campaign spoken about our transparent approach to social impact reporting. This has included our Three Golden Rules and online impact dashboard which we hope communicates our successes as well as when we don’t get things right. We also try to challenge ourselves to be transparent across all aspects of the organisations. Read more